"Electra" - the tragedy of the great ancient Greek playwright Euripides (ancient negro .) , 480 406 BC. e. ). *** Clytemnestra, who killed her husband, gets rid of her children - Elektra's daughter marries a poor peasant, and Orest's son is still very young and expelled from the city. Orest returns to his homeland, finds his sister and asks him to help punish the traitorous mother. Other works of Euripides that have survived to this day are "Iphigenia in Tauride", "Elena", "Phoenicians", "Ion", "Orest", "Vakkhanki", "Iphigenia in Avlida", "Kiklop" . The authority of Euripides in world literature is undeniable. His tragedies hundreds of years later were imitated by many famous playwrights. His immortal works have been translated into different languages of the world.